We are excited to be recruiting an Asylum and Refugees Intensive Support worker to work alongside this established team within 1625 Independent People.  As a member of the Asylum & Refugee Team, you will have the opportunity to support young asylum seekers settle into life in the UK. This is your chance to make a positive difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable young people in our society.

Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Thursday 02 January 2025.

We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritised ethnic groups, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience.

What you will be doing:

• By developing individual support plans that promote the development of independent living skills including accommodation, EET and wellbeing, you will provide support to young Asylum Seekers to ensure they successfully integrate into the local community and access the services to which they are entitled.
• Using your problem-solving skills, you will explore proactively move-on options with young people as you support them toward accessing and sustaining suitable alternative accommodation.
• Using your communication and cooperation skills, work with other involved professionals to support young Asylum Seekers through the process of seeking leave to remain in the UK
• By being well organised, efficient, and effective you will undertake a host of housing. management tasks including preparing properties for letting, and health and safety checks to ensure the safety of young people, colleagues, and properties.

You will be in the Asylum & Refugees Intensive Support team based within the wider South Gloucestershire team and your line manager will be the Asylum and Refugees (Intensive Support) Team Leader.

At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based, and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job.

If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.

If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.

Contract details: 

• Hours per week:

30 hours per week (this represents a 0.8 full time equivalent (FTE) role)

• Contract type:

permanent

• Pay: £31,067 – £32,654 (pro rata based on 0.8 FTE)

The location: Based in 1625ip’s office in Old Market, Bristol or in Patchway, South Gloucestershire